Our Physicians

Malcolm S. Pond, MD, FACC graduated from Yale University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and received his medical degree in 1973. He completed his residency training and cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins in 1978. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is the managing partner of Riverside Cardiology Associates, and has been in practice in Riverside since 1978. He performs general and invasive cardiology.

Chiayu Chen MD, FACC graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 1986 and his cardiology fellowship at George Washington University in 1989. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has been in practice in Riverside since 1989.

Andrew T. Ho, MD, FACC graduated from UC Irvine and received his medical degree from UC San Diego School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center in 2002, and was Chief Medical Resident from 2002 to 2003. He completed fellowship training in general cardiology at Loma Linda in 2006. He then received further specialized training in interventional cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor College of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear cardiology, interventional cardiology, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has been in practice since 2007 and joined Riverside Cardiology Associates in 2009. He is currently assistant Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda. He heads up our office in Temecula, CA.

Jennifer Kaminski, PA-C, is a certified physician assistant who joined Riverside Cardiology Associates in 2010.  She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Biola University in 2005 and her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies at Western University of Health Sciences in 2009.  She is a fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the California Academy of Physician Assistants.  She has expertise in general cardiology, patient care, treadmill stress testing, and nuclear cardiology.

Dr. Daniel Berman, MD, MACC, and his group oversee our cardiac nuclear imaging program and provide quality control and interpretation of SPECT and PET imaging performed at our offices. Dr. Berman is a world-renowned cardiologist who heads the nuclear cardiac program at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a Master in the American College of Cardiology, and is a pioneer in the field of nuclear cardiology and advanced imaging techniques.

We are affiliated with Dr. Jay Lee, who is a board certified cardiologist and electrophysiologist with Orange County Heart Institute in Anaheim, CA. Dr. Lee specializes in management and mapping of complex cardiac arrhythmias, and performs ablation procedures and implantation of cardiac defibrillators. We are also affiliated with Dr. Timothy Yeh, another electophysiologist who performs similar procedures.